Given the chance, I would want to have an investment such as the laundry shops. Why? Because like most people, I also wash my own linens from the undies to shirts to anything I cover myself and hang on to the wall to help make the house look better.
For me, for any business to succeed there must be a need for it. Day in and out, we change clothes from head to toe especially if you are working or have children to attend to.
Thus, for me having a laundry business is a wise decision as you not only benefit from the business economically, but you also provide people leverage to do other things. Yes, I mean that.
Laundry shops these days offer either you do it on your own, or the shop can do the washing for you for an extra cost, of course. You see, things like this are no longer a luxury rather than a necessity for any working individual.
Allowing the mechanical laundry to wash for you would take an average of two hours, and once you are done--all the linens are ready to be used again as you please. However, this does not go when you hand wash your clothes as you will have to fill the laundry bin, manually rinse them, and hang the clothes that at the minimum would take an average of three or four hours or even more, depending on the bulk of your laundry.
You see the time that anyone who can afford a P60 per kilo of laundry wash and P70 per drier, may now have the option to do other chores and fulfill other duties necessary on a weekend, that's if you are doing the chores on Saturdays and Sundays.
At the same time, it is also my belief that in everything you agree to invest your time and resources, you also commit to serving. Therefore, as a service provider, one must deliver with quality, efficiency, and consideration. That way you help thepeople and the community you serve, and in return, it gives back to you thru financial reward, and most of all, you become the local government's economic partner by providing jobs necessary.
So, that for me is a win-win approach, sadly, it is just a thought as I don't have the resources to make it happen.